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| Image number: | 2148 |
| Feature : | landslide |
| Grouping : | mass movements |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 2007 |
| Locality : | Muhira river |
| Country : | Burundi |
| Region - tribe : | Rusizi plain, Cibitoke |
| Physiographic region : | Rift-Tanganyika |
| Notice : | The river regime is characterised by increasing flash floods and stream floods, provoking lateral erosion, migration of river bed, creating a braided river pattern. The river bank became unstable by this lateral river erosion |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2007 Image 2148. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |